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Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: the books that inspired Harry Goulbourne: “Fanon’s black skin, white masks suggested that I attended to the question of who I was” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Harry Goulbourne has written many books on race relations and ethnicity and identity. Harry talks us through his fragmented school days in South London, how his engagement in student politics drove his interest in American History, and how the work of ...
Goulbourne, Harry
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Relativism and universalism in interrogation fairness: a comparative analysis between Europe and China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper addresses Chinese interrogation rules from historical and comparative perspectives by relating them to the very different development of interrogation procedure in Europe.
Vander Beken, Tom, Wu, Wei
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Mujeres Públicas and women in public: Scrutinising the history of prostitution in eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Mexico

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
wiley   +1 more source

Lost to Presence: The Entanglements of Writing, Protestant Christianity, and Empire in the 19th-Century Southern Africa

open access: yesJournal for the Study of Religion, 2021
This essay takes interest in a dialectical relationship between writing as affir-mation and writing as a system of codification. It explores this dialectic as it relates to the interaction between Sotho-speaking communities and Protestant Christian ...
Sepetla Molapo
doaj  

About the imperial constitutions issued in Serdica. The imperial constitutions for the Orient and the Occident

open access: yesOpolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne, 2020
Imperial constitutions make the basic source of Roman law in the period of the Principate or the Dominate. They present the Roman manner of unifying multicultural law of the Empire, consisting of various legislative practices and organization of the ...
Malina Novkirishka-Stoyanova
doaj   +1 more source

‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Minicio Fundano: una personalità da riscoprire

open access: yesErga-Logoi
Minicius Fundanus: a personality to rediscover The paper aims to examine the career of an imperial official who lived between the 1st and 2nd centuries CE: Minicius Fundanus.
Elena Gritti
doaj   +1 more source

Foreword to John\u27s Gospel in New Perspective

open access: yes, 2015
Over the last half century or more of Johannine scholarship, three issues have been of primary critical concern. One subject of interest has been the literary origin and composition of the Fourth Gospel.
Anderson, Paul N.
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Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 1, no. 1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1.
Belcher, Wendy Laura   +2 more
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